fergalr
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I wandered through the Iveagh Gardens a few months ago and came across the statue. Like the park itself, if you didn’t know it was there..
Are proper pedestals old hat now? Not to mention putting statues where people will see them?
The design is based on the drum of the Four Courts dome. There’s probably more artsy fartsy lingo about it, though.
It’s a vast facade alright. But it just doesn’t work in the slightest. The only sense you get of a unified facade is occassional enlightenment from across the road or in a drawing of the whole block on the wall of that pub just up the road from the Gresham.
The cleaning of the Savoy cinema block is transforming its appearance. I hope the entire length of it is getting a scrub. It’s going from grubby brown to an austere grey. Lines look nice and sharp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Hall_(Dublin)
Being used as a home for asylum seekers, according to Dr Wikipedia.
@GrahamH wrote:
Yip about the former. Not sure about the latter.
The entire block is one huge symmetrical facade so it would bizzare if one off-centre chunk was cleaned and the rest left in beautiful, eh, browny grey.
GrahamH, I get the distinct impression that you had indulgent parents when growing up as a child.
Or an indulgent father perhaps. One who was on the receiving end of many a wifely glare as the violin or piano in the corner – invested with so many maternal dreams of filial greatness – gathered dust…
There was a plan was there not to have small spotlights on all the surrounding buildings that would light up the length of the spire?
O’Connell St looks pathetic with those half-arsed Christmas lights looking feeble on the immature trees on either side of the road. Upper O’Connell St is mostly in pitch darkness, and the west side as usual apparently doesn’t count when it comes to decoration.
And the spike is essentially invisible at night time.
I like the tangerine. Not so hot on the stripes. And for once the render actually has a realistic Irish sky – albeit a beautiful late summer’s eve :p
Was walking along Westmoreland St for the last bus on Tuesday and the tree looks phenomonal late at night, even mroe so from across the bridge.
If only the Spire was floodlit…Btw, I appreciated knowing that the tree was a low-energy one. Unlike pine :confused:
Once again, the renders of a magical, ethereal, soufflé of a building are as artificial as the computer graphics themselves. All the windows reflect the Stephen’s Green centre opposite, which in itself is not entirely a bad thing. But it’s dishonest to suggest that somehow it would have looked different. The mantra of it’s just glass, sure you won’t even notice it – a sort of Ned Flanderesque “feels like I’m wearing nothing at all” is patently untrue. Again.
